UBO Team Lead

Responsibilities

• Define, document and review requirements.
• Understand project scope and coordinate with peer project and product managers.
• Write acceptance criteria for features and break them down into user stories / tasks.
• Ensure team has a clear understanding of the requirements.
• Clarify and groom requirements, manage scope changes, plan and prioritize incoming / backlog requests and ensure they are aligned with business goals.
• Track progress and make delivery possible.
• Assign team members for developing and ensure testing is complete before release.
• Coordinate and support release activities, including syncing with QA for validation.
• Provide initial estimations and actual effort for requirements.
• Conduct biweekly demos within the business unit and quarterly demos across the company.
• Support peer project managers and product owners.
• Assist incident managers and developers for solving incidents.
• Maintain close communication with stakeholders regarding dependencies, priorities, deliverables, risks, expectations, and other factors impacting delivery.
• Update and maintain the product roadmap for visibility into deliverables and timelines.
• Hold 1:1 discussions with team members and conduct internal evaluations.
• Continuously improve internal processes and contribute ideas for team and workflow optimization.
• Gather feedback on regular basis from stakeholders, users and clients.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in project, product management, or ownership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to write clear user stories, specs and product documentation.
• Strong planning, organizational, and decision-making abilities.
• Critical thinking, problem-solving capabilities, ability to make trade-offs between scope, quality and time.
• Proven experience in team leadership.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Jira, Monday, ProductPlan, and Timely.
• Understanding of web-development life cycle and basic knowledge of UX/UI principles.
• Negotiation skills are a plus.